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Why is this so expensive and why do people pay so much for it?
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Why is this so expensive and why do people pay so much for it?
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Ask the same people who pay $1200+ for a macbook that has 128GB of "flash storage" (glorified Mac SSD) in 2016.
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>>54828133
Every top end phone aside from nexus and Chinese shit is that expensive
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>>54828172
But isn't it a NVMe PCIe ssd? And why does it take so long to boot? And that's too expensive for a laptop of that caliber.
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People buy them because some people are too simple for android.
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>>54828261
>LG
>top end
Pick one famolam
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>>54828188
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>>54828291
>>54828311
>>54828327
Are you trying to prove me right here?
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>>54828355
Everything but the g4/5, yes. People pay way too much imo.
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>>54828286
LG G3 was the best phone ever made and if you don't think so you can eat shit.
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>>54828487
iPhone 5 > LG G3
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>>54828133
>Why is this so expensive
Because people are willing to pay that much for it
>Why do people pay so much for it?
Because they're idiots
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>>54828133
most people dont outright buy them anyway
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>>54828133
They make it expensive so poorfags will buy it
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>>54828261
G5 is out now, of course g4 would be cheaper.
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>>54828543
>iOS
Suit yourself, Macfag
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>being poor
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>>54828597
they buy them on installment plans which means they wind up paying even more for it over the life of the loan

"debt keeps you poor" is a lesson many people never learn
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hopefully because they have the money and appreciate the design
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>>54828133
It's basically a pocket computer, so it's the same price as a computer.
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Pretty much any phone you buy now is going to cost $600-$700. The lol poor argument is invalid
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>>54829295
My mom lost her phone on a trip not long ago. I got her a new one, owned outright, for under a hundred bucks.
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I told my girlfriend not to buy a 6s plus , you will drop it .

>Drops it immediately after opening it
>Drops it twice more in two weeks
>Screen needs replacing
>It was $1200NZ for a 16GB phone
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